March 2, 2017

Ms. Heffron's Weekly Letter

This week, Ms. Heffron's letter can be found on the front page of the PTO Cougar Chronicles.
Click here for the PTO Website

Browse our Updated Website

Our new updated website has launched! We hope you find the new design more modern, organized, and easier to navigate. We are excited about the district and school home pages with news and information features. Check out the icons at the top and bottom of the landing pages to easily navigate to family access, calendars, Facebook, and more.

Note: If you are finding the top drop down/navigation links will not work for you, you may need to "clear the cache" on the browser you are using. The below links will show you how to do this:

Attending our School Board Meetings – You’re Invited!
Next meeting: March 8, 2017
The community is welcome to attend School Board meetings to gain a better understanding of School District business and the role of the School Board. The public is also invited to address the Board during the public comment portion of each Board meeting.
Meeting agendas are posted within BoardDocs two days preceding each meeting. Click here for the meeting dates & agenda link.
*Annual Meeting dates located under featured tab/documents
*Agendas located under featured or meeting tabs
All are welcome!

Upcoming Events

With the launch of the new website, upcoming events are prominently displayed on the Cumberland home page. This listing draws directly from the calendar so it will be continually updated and accurate. Because of this new feature, we will no longer be including a separate listing on the Thursday folder page.

Announcements

Calling all poets! Cumberland students are encouraged to enter the National Schools Project poetry writing competition. Winning poems will be published in the 2017 Young American Poetry Digest! Your child can pick up an information sheet and submission form from Ms. Armstrong’s third grade classroom any day after school. Poems and submission forms will be due back to Cumberland on March 6th, 2017. Any questions, please e-mail gillian.armstrong@wfbschools.com.

Crossing Guard Wanted: The school district is looking for responsible people to become a substitute crossing guard until the end of the school year. If interested please stop in at the Recreation Dept., 5205 N Lydell, for an application. $12.51/hour.

SCRIP is a monthly fundraising program in which Cumberland PTO buys debit-style gift cards at a discount and sells them at face value. For example, order a $50 Scrip gift card, you receive the full $50 gift card and Cumberland receives a percentage from the merchant. The cards can carry a balance and never expire. Plan ahead and order the scrip you'll need for Spring Break - gas, restaurants, and hotels. Go to ShopWithScrip.com for a list of all participating merchants. If you don't see the gift cards you want on the order sheet, just write them in. This month orders are due March 9th and the orders will be delivered by March 22nd, before Spring Break. Click on the link below for the order form. Please contact Jennifer Konieczka at jmkonieczka@gmail.com with any questions.

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District Announcements

Advocates For Education Host School Board Candidate Forum March 6 at 6:30 pm. Three candidates are running for two school board seats in April's election. Doug Armstrong will be seeking re-election and W. Brett Christiansen and Friederike Lemaitre are newcomers to the race. Be an informed voter on April 4 by coming to AFE's March forum. Candidates will express their views on issues of importance to the district and will answer questions from the attendees. The event will be held March 6, at 6:30pm in the second floor meeting room of the Whitefish Bay Library.

REDgen March event: Tuesday, March 21, 2017. Featured guest, Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, M.D., M.S. Ed, a pediatrician specializing in Adolescent Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Topic: Our Kids are NOT Broken: A workshop to help children thrive.Please note: This program is about the effects of traumatic experiences on youth and best practices for working with youth who have experienced trauma to promote healing and their success. It is a different program than the ones Dr. Ginsburg did for REDgen in 2014 and 2015. This program is suitable for parents and for professionals who work with youth. We just want to be sure that parents know that this is a heavy topic and different from his previous presentations.